<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 20/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Caloggero</b> <<a href="mailto:rjc@mit.edu">rjc@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hmm, I actually meant the
mini-audicle...</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>Ah, I see. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Because I was never really able to use it, I'm not
sure exactly what it allows one to do, but I assume that it allows one to write
code in some sort of editor and then send that off to chuck to be
run. Is this true? </font></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Yes, that's it. It's a text editor with a build in virtual machine and some management for the shreds that are running. It has syntax highlighting which would be useless to you (I imagine) and it has hotkeys for starting, stopping and replacing shreds which would be useful.
<br><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">If so, then the text editor also needs to be
accessible: need to use a standard multi-line textbox (standard multiline text
widget in whatever toolkit your using) and hope that the screen reader knows
what it is. </font></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>Oh. I had no idea it was all so delicate. I do think the Mini uses a fairly standard toolkit but I'm not sure the textbox is standard as it does syntax highlighting and so on. Well, evidently it's not standard enough for you <sad>.
<br><br>I fear that that would mean that right now if you'd like to work with ChucK the command-line version is the version for you. As such that's no great limitation for using chuck, at least I know that when I use the Mini it's mainly for the syntax highlighting and the rest of the time I use the command-line as well. Personally I am very interested in writing instruments where I don't need to use the screen so I can tell you those can be written but unlike you I do enjoy toying with code as part of my design process so the large question might be to what degree you are willing to go through a stage of writing code in order to get a instrument you can play without the need for visual feedback.
<br></div><br>It's sad that what might be a perfect solution; a hardware modular with knob labels in Braille is such a expensive thing. <br><br>Ok, back to practical reality, what challenges would we face in the usage of plain command-line ChucK? How usable is a command-line at all with it's unusual tendency to add text at the bottom and scroll the history upward to you?
<br><br><br>Yours,<br>Kas.<br></div>